Principal Perfectly Demonstrates Liberal Policy: Promote People Who Won’t Work

The use of participation trophies has risen over the years as liberal policy continues to flood the public school systems.

One Washington, D.C.-area principal apparently believed so strongly that everyone should get a prize — regardless of whether they earned it — that her school graduated students even if they’d failed to show up to class for six weeks.

Former Ballou Senior High Principal Yetunde Reeves has been reassigned after an investigation conducted by WAMU and NPR found that Ballou allowed students to graduate after they failed to meet state graduation requirements. Dozens of students were allowed to graduate despite missing weeks of instruction.

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In fact WAMU reports that more than half the graduates missed more than three months of class. But, who cares about class? It’s about their self-esteem, right?

The policy by the local school district, District of Columbia Public Schools, requires that students who miss class more than 30 times fail the course, and for good reason. Missed classes mean lower test grades. It just makes sense. If you go to class, you learn something. If you don’t go to class, you miss out.

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WAMU continues the report saying that an internal email showed that only 57 students were on track to graduate academically, yet all 164 students received their diploma. Corrupt? You bet.

In an effort to make the school’s administration look good, pressure was put on teachers to pass these students and do whatever it took to graduate them.

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However, some teachers were extremely upset over the decision, and several spoke out.

One teacher at Ballou told WAMU, “It’s oppressive to the kids because you’re giving them a false sense of success.”

Another gets even closer to the betrayal of the educational mission that’s on display here: “To not prepare them is not ethical.”

These teachers are absolutely right.

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Here’s the part about all of this that’s really not that surprising: This was a D.C. public school. A liberal, left-leaning institution, visited by Michelle Obama, that does whatever it takes to make itself look good.

Moreover, this school just taught its students one important liberal rule: You don’t have to work to receive a reward or to succeed.

At an ordinary school, graduation is a privilege for those who showed up and worked hard. It’s not for those who just want something given to them.

But the truth is, the Democrats are raising voters who want everything given to them, and the Dems are more than happy to oblige. They’ll give their voters free health care, free food, free housing, free phones, etc., all in an exchange for a vote in the polls.